The purpose of this chapter is to alleviate
those conditions within the Township of Oxford whereby policemen and
fire personnel make unnecessary responses to alarms and thereby drain
the manpower, time, space and facilities of the Township of Oxford
in providing responses to fire alarms and burglar alarms within the
Township of Oxford.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
ALARM BUSINESS
Any business operated by a person, partnership or corporation
or other business entity for profit which engages in the activity
of altering, installing, leasing, maintaining, repairing, replacing,
selling, servicing or responding to a fire or burglar alarm system
or which causes any of these activities to take place.
ALARM DEVICE
Any type of alarm-activating equipment which provides warning
of burglary, intrusion, fire, flood or like peril.
ALARM SYSTEM
The installation in one or more buildings of one or more
alarm devices for the express purpose of giving visual and/or audible
warning of an emergency such as burglary, intrusion, fire, flood or
like peril.
FALSE ALARM
An alarm signal eliciting a response by police or fire fighters
or any other public officials when a situation requiring a response
by police or fire fighters or any other public officials does not
in fact exist, but excluding an alarm signal caused by violent conditions
of nature or other extraordinary circumstances not reasonably subject
to control by the alarm business or alarm user.
All information submitted in compliance with
this chapter shall be held in confidence and shall be deemed a record
exempt from public disclosure pursuant to state statute(s). Any violation
of confidentiality shall be deemed a violation of this chapter.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply
to any alarm system installed on property occupied by any township,
county or state or federal government agency or office.
Any person who intentionally causes the giving
of a false alarm shall be in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:33-3.